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mktemp is a peculiar phenomenon in the linux world.
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Well, I'm sure things like this happen more often, but,
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Turns out, there once was an mktemp.c written for OpenBSD.
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Distributions started including it, writing their own version, the usual.
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Apparently, popularity of this tool became big enough, and incompatibilities
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between versions arose significantly, that it was split off into its own
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package and website, https://www.mktemp.org, around 2000. Written by Todd C.
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Miller, the author of sudo!
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This version was included in Debian under the package name "debianutils", with
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the last known version being debianutils-2.8.4, where it was split into its
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own "mktemp" package, both reflecting the state of version 1.5.
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https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-10/msg00051.html
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In 2007, GNU coreutils adds its own, slightly incompatible version of mktemp
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with coreutils version 6.10.
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I can only assume most linux distributions switched to it, because come 2008,
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mktemp-1.6 releases, featuring GNU compatibility.
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Debian switches to coreutils inmediately, while Slackware keeps it for another
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decade, citing the incompatibilities, and installing the GNU version as
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mktemp-gnu, only reverting this decision in 2018.
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I could've sworn one of my scripts ran into the differences between mktemp-1.5
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and GNU mktemp, but I can't figure out what it was, and check for it, now.
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